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New York Film Festival · 2011

New York Film Festival 2011

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5 films · 3 reviews

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Ben-Hur

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The film uses an unusually wide aspect ratio: 2.76:1, which accentuates the stillness of the fleets approaching before the screen erupts in the chaos of battle.

Donald Munro · 2.5 out of 5
A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

(Country: USA; Year: 1959; Director: William Wyler; Writer: Lew Wallace, Karl Tunberg, Maxwell Anderson, Christopher Fry, Gore Vidal; Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring)

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The Gold Rush

(Year: 1925; Director: Charles Chaplin; Writer: Charles Chaplin; Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite, Georgia Hale, Jack Adams, Frank Aderias, Leona Aderias, Lillian Adrian, Sam Allen, Claude Anderson, Harry Arras, Albert Austin, Marta Belfort)

Invasión

A group of men try to resist a mysterious invasion.

(Year: 1969; Director: Hugo Santiago; Writer: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Hugo Santiago; Stars: Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz, Martín Adjemián, Daniel Fernández, Roberto Villanueva, Lito Cruz, Jorge Cano, Ricardo Ormellos, Leal Rey, Horacio Nicolai, Juan Carlos Galván, Aldo Mayo, Hedy Krilla, Claudia Sánchez)

We Can't Go Home Again

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Truth be told, it is annoying as hell and becomes very tired, very quickly.

Robert Munro · 1.5 out of 5
A companion piece to Don't Expect Too Much, We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental vision of disillusioned American youth in the Seventies.

(Country: USA; Year: 1976; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Nicholas Ray, Susan Schwartz; Stars: Nicholas Ray, Tom Farrell, Leslie Levinson, Richie Bock)

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You Are Not I

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Exquisite.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
The director's long-lost debut, described by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the best made movies of the 1980s.

(Country: United States of America; Year: 1981; Director: Sara Driver; Writer: Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, based on the story by Paul Bowles; Stars: Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante)

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